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7/19/2006, 05:39 AM
July 19, 1799 Rosetta Stone found
During Napoleon Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign, a French soldier discovers a black basalt slab inscribed with ancient writing near the town of Rosetta, about 35 miles north of Alexandria.
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The irregularly shaped stone contained fragments of passages written in three different scripts: Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphics, and Egyptian demotic. The ancient Greek on the Rosetta Stone told archaeologists that it was inscribed by priests of Ptolemy V in the second century B.C.
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Ptolemy V on a coin...he was Cleopatra's dad
More startlingly, the Greek passage announced that the three scripts were all of identical meaning. The artifact thus held the key to solving the riddle of hieroglyphics, a written language that had been "dead" for nearly two thousand years.
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The stone is in the British Museum in London. People like looking at it.
Two decades later, French Egyptologist Jean Francois Champollion was able to decipher the hieroglyphics using his knowledge of Greek as a guide, and the language and culture of ancient Egypt was suddenly open to scientists.
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Jean Francois Champollion broke the code
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During Napoleon Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign, a French soldier discovers a black basalt slab inscribed with ancient writing near the town of Rosetta, about 35 miles north of Alexandria.
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/9878/zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzlondon 20rgc1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
The irregularly shaped stone contained fragments of passages written in three different scripts: Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphics, and Egyptian demotic. The ancient Greek on the Rosetta Stone told archaeologists that it was inscribed by priests of Ptolemy V in the second century B.C.
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/6344/zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzun8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Ptolemy V on a coin...he was Cleopatra's dad
More startlingly, the Greek passage announced that the three scripts were all of identical meaning. The artifact thus held the key to solving the riddle of hieroglyphics, a written language that had been "dead" for nearly two thousand years.
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/8731/zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz zroge2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
The stone is in the British Museum in London. People like looking at it.
Two decades later, French Egyptologist Jean Francois Champollion was able to decipher the hieroglyphics using his knowledge of Greek as a guide, and the language and culture of ancient Egypt was suddenly open to scientists.
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/1806/zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzchamp ollaz9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Jean Francois Champollion broke the code
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